pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com (Peter Altamore) (12/27/89)
I just added a Master-3A1 external drive to my 2000 and it's causing very odd
behavior. I have 2 internal floppies installed in a base machine, there are no
other add-ons. When this drive is plugged in and I boot from df0: (I tried
many disks and the story was the same) I keep getting requesters like 'You
MUST replace <diskname> in drive 0!!!' or 'Unit 1 not a DOS disk' or it grinds
a little and I get the Kick screen again. But I never took the darn disk out
of the drive, It just seems to be random requester time when this happens.
After doing the 3 finger salute maybe 10-15 times the machine will boot. The
drive has a unit switch on the back labeled 0 and 1, I keep it on 1 cause this
is what the manual said to do. Of course I tried it on 0 and it still freaked
out and would never boot (well.. I just never waited for it when it ws set to
0). Am I missing something here? Is there a motherboard jumper for external
drives, as there is for 2nd internals? Thanks in advance for replies and Merry
Xmas and a cool 1990.
Pierre Altamore
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_______________________________________________________________________________dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan) (12/28/89)
A Reply-To: dfrancis@dsoft.UUCP (Dennis Heffernan) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: DragonSoft Development, Livingston NJ pierre@pro-graphics.cts.com writes: |When this drive is plugged in and I boot from df0: (I tried many |disks and the story was the same) I keep getting requesters like 'You |MUST replace <diskname> in drive 0!!!' or 'Unit 1 not a DOS disk' or |it grinds a little and I get the Kick screen again. But I never took |the darn disk out of the drive, It just seems to be random requester |time when this happens. After doing the 3 finger salute maybe 10-15 |times the machine will boot.... Well, I've a friend with a similar problem on his A500, but he says that his caps lock key flashes when this happens. You might want to look at it the next time you boot up- if the light flashes a few times, it's trying to tell you something is wrong. --dfh ...uunet!tronsbox!dsoft!dfrancis "Think of something clever, and assume I said it."